Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pardon, amnesty, forgiveness [Sept. 6]. No, never...
Jimmy Carter exhibited a tremendous amount of courage in making his policy statement on amnesty and pardon at an American Legion convention, in view of the paranoid patriotism that is always present...
...N.P.A., Victor Corpuz, and Benigno Aquino Jr., the former Liberal Party leader and presidential candidate, who has been confined for the past four years on dubious charges that he was an N.P.A. leader.* They will almost surely be convicted, but they stand a good chance of a presidential pardon if they make confessions and come over to the government side...
...Russians'. Then he gave a real zinger to the Legionnaires. He opposed a blanket amnesty for the men who had deserted or dodged the draft during Viet Nam, he said, because that implied approval of what they had done. But, he added, "I intend to grant a blanket pardon...
...common-sense qualification was seized upon by Senator Robert Dole, Ford's running mate, whose chief function seems to be to hound the Democratic candidate. Dole had just addressed the Legionnaires in Seattle, where he roused cheers by saying that Ford would give Viet Nam evaders "no blanket pardon, no blanket amnesty, no blanket clemency." Hurrying to Des Moines, Dole noted that Carter had taken two positions on embargoes and, sounding a theme the Republicans are bound to emphasize, cited this as an example of Carter's "unreliable flexibility." Dole was reminded that Ford himself had said flatly...